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| Clint the Traffic Warden |
We watched a lone traffic warden ambling along the mean streets of Llanishen yesterday morning. As he strolled for twenty minutes along Tyglas Td, Tyglas Avenue and Kimberly Terrace to Llanishen Village, we noticed the significance of these roads to a council traffic warden searching for obstructions and illegally parked vehicles - there are none. There never are. The area boasts a total lack of divers behaving badly.
All the bottlenecks in the area are causes by the implementation of inappropriate traffic calming measures such as blocking off roads, chicanes, traffic lights and road narrowing (not to mention Inland Revenue workers unnecessarily being forced to share access with the Business Park and Retail area)
We were struck by the nonchalant traffic warden who reminded us of Clint Eastwood in the film A Fistful of Dollars. The locals trembled as he passed slowly. We didn't see him spit in rebellious defiance but he could have done.
So why didn't Clint book any of them? Perhaps he's looking forward to the sequel "A Few Tickets More"
The resident's have already won there victory against being booked for parking outside there own homes. We pay our rates so should be able to park without the council raising more money off us
ReplyDeleteThere is a facebook group about this called CaerphillyRd
ReplyDeleteHi Peter
ReplyDeleteWhat is special about Caerphilly Rd residents? We watched a bus waiting to pull out because of you or your neghbours' cars blocking the bus stop. Don't bus passengers have a right to get to work on time?
Look .We resident's need to park outside our house's just like everyone else. We pay council rates AND car tax
ReplyDeleteI think when you buy a house on a main road, you have to expect a lack of parking. There are houses on Newport Rd, could you imagine what would happen if they used your logic of "We resident's need to park outside our house's just like everyone else"?
ReplyDeleteWhich bit of your tax will pay for the hospital treatment necessary because a small child is injured trying to cross the road but a driver's view is obscured by your thoughtless parking?
ReplyDeleteThey're going to put a bus lane down caerphilly rd so nobody will be able to park there
ReplyDeleteMy daughter was booked for parking outside her boyfriends flat last week. There was resident parking and he has a permit but there were no resident spaces available so she parked on a yellow line. She wasn't causing an obstruction but I think the wardens were just trying to hit their targets.
ReplyDeleteI had a look at the Caerphilly rd site. If they don't get booked why should my daughter?
Caerphilly Road should be restricted parking throughout the day. Its just as busy throughout the day, and Sunay lunchtime is even busier that the rest of the week
ReplyDeleteVery interesting discussion. Having lived on Caerphilly Rd for a few years I can categorically state that no cars obstruct either buses nor emergency services. This was agreed by Cardiff Council. Provisions are being put in place for alternative parking for residents as people have to remember that the primary use for the road was for residential housing...not a cut through for cars/bus/services. Maybe the issue is the volume of traffic being put upon the road, and alternative routes should be considered as the road is not fit for purpose at present?! Do not condemn others until you have lived in their shoes!
ReplyDeletePlease don't keep on about Caerphlly Rd. There are lots of parts of Cardiff that are worse and cause more problems for bus routes so please leave us alone. We have an agreement with the council and they understand we are a special case.
ReplyDelete"not a cut through for cars/bus/services"?
ReplyDeleteNo its a main arterial route into Cardiff from the North. What about all the other main roads in the city? Cowbridge Road was a residential road at one time.
Maybe if you don't want to live on a main road you shouldn't have moved there!
And I can categorically state that as a bus user, my mode of transport is frequently obstructed and held up because of the parking on your road. I've often seen buses not even able to pull up at the bus stop because of cars parked all over the place.
And your cars dripping pollution on the grass are killing the trees.
Want me to carry on?
You people make me so very angry
Caerphilly rd is unique. It is a main road with terraced houses and no place for we residents to park except on the street outside our houses
ReplyDeleteUnique because you don't get booked if you park on yellow lines there. Lets have some moe unique parking roads please
ReplyDeleteWhy are the cars parked in Heol Hir on pavements (especially those houses with empty drives) not booked? They do nothing about them.
ReplyDeleteTracy on facebook has been taking pictures of the lawbreakers
ReplyDeleteClint the traffic warden watch out!
http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Better-Cardiff/100002398472582
The police do nothing - the council does nothing - meanwhile try and get away without paying your taxes
ReplyDeleteAnyone know what happened about the parking fine protest? It kicked off ages ago. Did the council do anythin because all the card are still there.
ReplyDeletehttp://yourcardiff.walesonline.co.uk/2011/03/24/petition-against-caerphilly-road-parking-clampdown/#comment-7516
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